The deep water
where sunlight
does not reach
strange creatures
make their home
#benthic #decapods
lobsters and crabs
that do no look like
their other cousins

#firewords280 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental and Analytical Chemistry (f/m/d) 60 - 100 % The Department of Environmental Chemistry (Uchem) of Eawag is offering a position for a

#postdoc #job Environ Analytical Chemistry & Toxicology of #benthic #cyanobacteria @eawag.bsky.social Eawag in #Switzerland! Creating knowledge base of benthic cyanobacteria in Switzerland in collaboration with Pilar Junier Uni.Neuchatel. apply by April 8th.
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Figure 1 Van Leeuwen (2026): Conceptual view of the expected influence of the new littoral zones with recoupled habitats on primary producers, macroinvertebrate primary consumers and higher trophic levels in Lake Markermeer, The Netherlands. Primary production in the original lake in the pelagic zone (left food web) is mainly driven by pelagic phytoplankton. In the new littoral zones (right food web), additional contributions of benthic (macrophytes and periphyton) and terrestrial (shore plants) primary producers are expected, forming a broader base of consumers and higher trophic levels in a more complex food web. Food web based on Jin (2021).

New publication: Recoupling #terrestrial, #benthic and #pelagic habitats by constructing #littoralzones diversifies #carbon flows to aquatic #macroinvertebrates.
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Community DNA outperforms eDNA metabarcoding for biodiversity assessments in the Clarion–Clipperton Fracture Zone Metabarcoding offers a powerful approach for assessing benthic biodiversity in remote and understudied deep-sea environments. However, the methodological performance of different DNA extraction strate...

See how different #DNA extraction strategies (ComDNA vs. SedDNA) perform for #benthic #meiofauna.

This study assesses these strategies using #metazoan #diversity in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ): doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

Rare study showing that #microplastics in #benthic sediments affect the relationship with 🦪Macomona liliana & impair the deep-burrowing behaviour of 🪱Macroclymenella stewartensis, likely influencing key ecosystem functions such as benthic O2 fluxes & nitrogen cycling.
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This study presents a fully replicable experimental framework for simulating #ocean warming and acidification in #laboratory settings, with a specific focus on #sessile and low-mobility #benthic #invertebrates 👇

doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

Small old fashioned borosilicate specimen jar with frosted glass rim and knobbed lid. Inside against a dark blue background is a five legged brittle star made of small woven white cylindrical beads

Another experiment with glass specimen jars. Beaded #BrittleStar on a blue background. I rather like this one
#BeadWeaving #Benthic #MarineBiology #Ophiuroids #Echinoderms

🌊 Earlier in 2025, a hybrid workshop brought together #researchers, who pioneered heated settlement plates approaches for studying #benthic assemblages responses to warming in polar and temperate seas, with a broader international community.

🔓 Check out the Workshop Report: doi.org/10.3897/rio....

🧬 This new study aims to advancing #MarineConservation using #metabarcoding and metaphylogeography for a multi-year biomonitoring of #benthic communities of national parks across two seas 🌊

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Celebrating Antarctica Day: ASF Announces 2025 Small Grants in Antarctic Science for Early Career Researchers — Antarctic Science Foundation Today, we celebrate Antarctica Day. The 1st of December officially marks 66 years since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, a landmark agreement that designated Antarctica as a continent de...

Grateful to receive funding from @asfofficial.bsky.social This will greatly enhance my research on the population dynamics of the Southern Ocean seastar Glabraster antarctica! This work is fundamental to understanding #benthic #invertebrates’ response to #climatechange 🧬🇦🇶

Scientists find marine life thriving on World War II explosives in the Baltic Sea An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.

Surprising good news: Seafloor species are creating new habitats out of unexploded World War 2 munitions in the Baltic Sea. Article links to open access paper. phys.org/news/2025-09... #ocean #environment #pollution #ecology #science #sciencenews #benthic #openaccess #oceanfloor

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Tracking bioturbation through time: The evolution of the marine sedimentary mixed and transition layers The evolution of sediment mixing and deep burrowing has been decoupled over the past 539 million years of Earth history.

Bioturbidation drives marine ecosystem processes and ecology through deep time! #ocean #benthic #paleoecology #science

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Did life start on the ocean floor — and what does that mean for alien life? : Short Wave How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of water on...

Life is good at the bottom! #benthos #benthic #science

The larval stage of a spotfin #flounder dancing to the music in its funky headdress.

#spotfinflounder #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #benthic #scubadiving #underwater #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater #marinelife

BC Salmon Farmers on X: "🎉 It’s BBQ time, Campbell River! We're firing up the grills for our annual Community Appreciation BBQ and you’re invited! 🍣 📍 Robert V. Ostler Park 📅 Thursday, July 24, 2025 🕦 AM – PM 💵 $5 suggested minimum donation to support the @CRFoodBank This is a family-friendly https://t.co/rwI9rOlLkn" / X 🎉 It’s BBQ time, Campbell River! We're firing up the grills for our annual Community Appreciation BBQ and you’re invited! 🍣 📍 Robert V. Ostler Park 📅 Thursday, July 24, 2025 🕦 AM – PM 💵 $5 suggested minimum donation to support the @CRFoodBank This is a family-friendly https://t.co/rwI9rOlLkn

I will be here volunteering my time at the "ask me anything tent". Come talk #sealice #wildsalmon #truth #data the #20yearlie and the #magic fish. We can even chat about #benthic monitoring if that's your jam! x.com/BCSalmonFarm...

#RogueOne #Andor #Benthic #SegraMilo #Tognath #Partisans #XWing

🤔⁉📝If you learned something new or have any questions about forams, leave them in the comments! Follow us if you want to learn more about forams and what they can tell us about the past ocean oxygen.🐚
#pastoceanoxygen #scicomm #foraminifera #paleoscience #micropaleontology #benthic #planktonic

Interested in #genetic dynamics linked to the anthropization 🙍 of #marine 🐳 environments?
The ASIM unit @Ifremer_fr seeks a #PhD student to study connectivity between 2 #benthic species of interest.
Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/dXU0oOW
Apply by 🕰️ June 17, 2025

Interested in #genetic dynamics linked to the anthropization 🙍 of #marine 🐳 environments?
The ASIM unit @Ifremer_fr seeks a #PhD student to study connectivity between 2 #benthic species of interest.
Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/dXU0oOW
Apply by 🕰️ June 17, 2025

After a very long day of many cancelled and delayed flights we made it to Sisimiut and onto #Sanna. Home for the next week. We will look at #carbon content in #greenland #fjords and collect #videos of #benthic #biodiversity🦑🧪🌏 #bluecarbon #polar #marineecology

Jobs in Marine Science : Earthworks : Staff Scientist - Victoria, Canada - University of Victoria <div id="title">Staff Scientist</div> <div id="city"> Victoria </div> <div id="country"> Canada </...

Staff Scientist - Victoria, Canada - www.earthworks-jobs.com/marine/victo... - #jobs #scientist #marinescience #oceanography #marine #biodiversity #benthic #pelagic #coastal #deepsea #ecosystems #ecology

#Monitoring #Antarctic #Krill #Distribution In #SouthernOcean
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Antarctica #ecosystem #fishery #economics #sustainability #sustainable #biomass #eDNA #DNA #remotesensing #acoustic #geostatistics #swarms #naturalresource #habitat #ice #benthic

Donald Trump deep sea mining order violates law, China says The US president speeds up permits for a practice opposed by many countries and environmentalists.

#FridayThoughts "The art of the deal" had to eventually be applied to things that the #USA does not actually own, will be devastating to our #benthic ecosystems and #oceans, not to mention a legitimate front for #underseacable disruption with "right" licence
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Star Wars is hard!

#art #starwars #benthic #tubes #sawgerrera

Deep Computer Vision & Benthic Ecosystems | MASTS Open Forum Session The MASTS Artificial Intelligence Forum was excited to host this free Open Forum Session with an interesting talk on: Understanding the Current State of Southern Ocean Benthic Ecosystems Using Deep Computer Vision Speaker: Dr Cameron Trotter, Machine Learning Research Scientist, British Antarctic Survey Loss of marine biodiversity is a key issue facing the modern world. The removal of species from an environment can have profound effects on the overall ecosystem structure, though to what degree any species contributes to ecosystem stability is often unknown until they are removed. Due to its remoteness, relatively little is known about the structure of benthic ecosystems situated in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. This region is among the most vulnerable to climate change and is currently one of the fastest-warming areas on the planet. Additionally, increasing human activity, including a growing number of vessels, poses further risks to these fragile ecosystems. Traditionally, our understanding of Southern Ocean biodiversity has relied on nets or other sampling devices to bring benthic organisms to the surface. However, these methods are inherently destructive and provide limited insight into community structure. The development of underwater imaging technologies has enabled non-destructive, in-situ data collection, but analysing these images remains time-consuming and requires specialist expertise, as many of the organisms are found nowhere else on Earth. This has created a bottleneck, where data is collected faster than it be curated, significantly limiting our understanding of these ecosystems and how they are changing. To address this challenge, we present the development of a deep-learning computer vision model trained to detect key taxa in Southern Ocean benthic imagery. Using only a small subset of labelled images from a high-resolution, downward-facing towed camera, the model learns to autonomously process unlabelled imagery, requiring only human verification of its output. This approach accelerates analysis and expands the spatio-temporal range of study compared to fully manual methods, offering a clearer picture of the current state of the Southern Ocean’s benthic ecosystems.

The #AI Open Forum Session on “Deep Computer Vision & #Benthic Ecosystems” is now available to watch on YouTube!

Thanks #ASLO25 for a great conference week in Charlotte, NC, and the opportunity to talk about #benthic #N2O cycling in the #BalticSea- it's been fun! @syke.fi @finmari-ri.bsky.social
Funding: Research Council of Finland

Benthic zone - Wikipedia

The #benthic zone is the #ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an #ocean, #lake, or #stream, including #sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.

The name comes from the Ancient #Greek word βένθος (bénthos), meaning "the depths".

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MASTS Open Forum Session "Deep Computer Vision & Benthic Ecosystems" - MASTS MASTS invites everyone to this free Open Forum Session hosted by the Marine Artificial Intelligence Research Forum.

Please join us for the upcoming Open Forum Session by the Marine #AI Forum!

The session titled Understanding the Current State of #SouthernOcean #Benthic Ecosystems Using #DeepLearning Computer Vision with Dr Cameron Trotter (@bas.ac.uk) will be taking place online on Thurs 3 Apr at 10 am UTC.

Such a great way to start the week: #benthic sampling for the 2nd year MBO students of University of Plymouth with a Van Veen grab and a Box corer, with the ☀️ as a bonus !
@plymuni.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social